xPROS AND CONS OF HITCHHIKING-ROGER WATERS
This is a great album, but before you start, you must learn this:
CAmC/B
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B-------------------------------------|
G-------------------------------------|
D------0h2------0h2------0h2----------|
A--3---------0--------0--------0-2----|
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this is basically the main riff of the album,
(sometimes played with variations, such as one more Am bar)
it occurs in almost all of the songs (during the C/Am parts)
You should also kinda strum C and Am while playing this...
This riff will be signified by a *********************\/
at the beginning and ************/\ ending of the riff
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4:30 (Apparently They Were Running Abroad)
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CFCFCDmEmGG+ Am
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AmCAm
We were moving away from the border
CAm
Looking for somewhere to sleep
CAm
The two of us sharing the driving
CAm
Two hitchhikers slumped in the back seat
Hello
CAm
I sneaked a quick look in the mirror
She gave me a smile
CAm
I said "Is anyone hungry?
CAm
Should we stop for a while?"
CAmAm
So we pulled off into a layby
CAm
Her dress blew up over her head
CAm
I said "Would you like to come with me?"
CAm
She said something foreign under her breath
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FC
And the sun shone down on her lovely young limbs
FC
I thought to myself she's much too good for him
FCF
I lay down beside her with tears in my eyes
GF *CAm *GFCC/B...
She said
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4:33 (Running Shoes)
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Am
So I stood by the roadside
(G) F
The soles of my running shoes gripping the tarmac
(G) Am (G) F (G)
Like gunmetal magnets
Am
Fixed on the front of her Fassbinder face
(G) F
Was the kind of a smile
(G) Am
That only a rather dull child could have drawn
(G) F (G)
While attempting a graveyard in the moonlight
Am
But she was impressed
(G) F
You could see that she thought I looked fine
(G) Am
And when she turned sweeter
(G) F
The reason (between you and me) was
(G) AmF
She'd just seen my green Lamborghini
(You can play a barre-chord G in the middle of Am and F
and visa-versa to link them together)
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AmCAm
So we went for a spin in the country
CAm
To feel the wind in our hair
CAm
To feel the power of my engine
CAm
To feel the thrill of desire
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CAmCAmFCFCGF (C)
FC
And then in the trees I heard a twig snap
FC
Warning lights flashed on my map
FC
I opened my eyes and to my surprise
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4:37 (Arabs With Knives And West German Skies)
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GC
There were Arabs with Knives
FAm
At the foot of the bed
GFC
Right at the foot of the bed
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CAm
Oh my God how did they get in here?
CAm
I thought we were safe home in England
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FCF
She said "Come on now kid, it was wrong what you did
GFCAm
You've got to admit it was wrong what you did
GFC
You got to admit it was wrong"
Oh god....Jesus
C
Sleep Sleep
G
I know that I'm only dreaming
Leave her alone..get out..out..get out of my house
C
Through closed eyes
G
I see West German skies on the ceiling
F
And I want to get back to the girl with the rucksack
C
To feel her flaxen hair
G
I want to be there
F
See the sun going down behind Krupps steelworks
CG
On the outskirts of some German town
C
Guten Abend meiner Damen und Herren Ha Ha Ha Ha
G7
Willkommen in Konnigsburg Ha Ha Ha Ha
C
Wollen zie danzen mit mir oder drinken Bier Ha Ha Ha Ha
G7
Thank you but......
F#F
This young lady and I
CC7G
Will just finish this bottle of wine
F
It was kind of you...but
C
I think we'll just say goodnight
Leave us alone
Goodnight
"Leave us alone
C
Could I have the key to one four three please?
F
There you are
Thank you, goodnight
CFCDm
Hello yes I'd like to order breakfast please
Em
I'd like coffee for two, and toast with marmalade
GG+
No...marmalade.
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4:39 (For The First Time Today Part 2)
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C
For the first time today
FGC
I held her naked body next to mine
FAmDm7
In this hotel overlooking the Rhine
GG+
I made her mine
AmGCFAmDm
Ooh babe...ooh babe
GG+ Am
Come with me and stay with me
FAm
Please stay with me
Uh...what is it?
F
Stay with me
AmF
Stay with me
CF
Stay with me
No...
AmFAmF
Stay with me
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4:41 (Sexual Revolution)
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Em
Hey, girl take out the dagger
CDEm
And let's have a stab at the sexual revolution
Em
Hey girl let freedom for all be our rallying call
CDEm
Tomorrow lets make...our new resolution
CD
Yeah, but tonight lie still
GDEm
While I plunder your sweet grave
CDEm
And remember only the poor can be saved
Em
Hey girl as I've always said I prefer your lips red
CDEm
Not what the good Lord made but what he intended
Em
Hey girl don't point the finger at me
CDEm
I am only a rat in a maze like you and only the dead go free
CD
So please hold my hand
GDEm
As we blunder through the maze
CDEm
And remember nothing can grow without rain
(Thunder)
(EmCEmCEmCEmC )
Em........... C.... EmCDGDEmCDEm
Don't point your finger at me
GG/F#Em
I awoke in a fever
GG/F#Em
The bedclothes were all soaked in sweat
GG/F#Em
She said "You've been having a nightmare
GG/F#Em
And it's not over yet"
CD
Then she picked up the doggy in the window
GG/F#Em
(The one with the waggly tail)
CDEm
And she put him to bed between two bits of bread
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4:47 (The Remains Of Our Love)
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GG/F#Em
I just cowered in the corner
GG/F#Em
My pyjama coat over my head
GG/F#Em
And she smiled as she finished her sandwich
GG/F#EmFCF
And her cold eyes fixed me to my dark history
G
As she brushed the remains
FC
Of our love from the bed
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CAm
And when she had turned back the covers
CAm
When all of the prayers had been read
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F
She said "Come on over here you silly boy
F
Before you catch your death of cold
C
I was only joking
F
Let's leave behind the city grime
F
Let's not compete
C
It could be fine in the country
GF
Couldn't it though...come on lets go
CFCF...
I said "OK"
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4:50 (Go FIshing)
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G
To reach for the pie in the sky
Cm
Go fishing my boy!
Bsus4BCdimBsus4BEmCDBsus4
We set out in the spring
D
With a trunk full of books about everything
Bsus4
About solar devices
D
And how nice natural childbirth is
Cdim
We cut down some trees
And we trailed our ideals
Bsus4B
Through the forest glade
Cdim
We dammed up the stream
And the kids cooled their heels
Bsus4B
In the fishing pool we'd made
EmEm/D
We held hands and we exchanged bands
CD
And we practically lived off the land
Bsus4
You adopted a fox cub
D
Whose mother was somebody's coat
Bsus4
You fed him by hand
And then snuggled him down
D
In the grandfather bed while I wrote
Cdim
We grew our own maize
Bsus4
And I only occasionally went into town
Cdim
To stock up on antibiotics
Bsus4B
And shells for the shotgun that I kept around
EmEm/D
I told the kids stories while you worked your loom
CD
And the sun went down sooner each day.
G
*Chapter six in which Eeyore has a birthday
C
And gets two presents
DG
Daddy...come on dad
Eeyore the old grey donkey stood by the side
C
Of the stream and he looked at himself in the water
D
"Pathetic" he said, "That's what it is"
Bsus4BD
"Good morning Eeyore" said Pooh
CdimBsus4B
"Oh" said Pooh, He thought for a long time
Bsus4
Then the leaves all fell down
Our crops all turned brown
D
It was over
Bsus4
As the first snowflakes fell
D
I realized all was not well in the camp
Cdim
The kids caught bronchitis
Bsus4B
The space heater ran out of diesel
Cdim
One weekend a friend from the East,
Bsus4B
Rot his soul, stole your heart
Em
I said "**** it then
Em/D
Take the kids back to town
CD
Maybe I'll see you around"
GCDGAm7GCG/B
Am7G
And so...leaving all our hopes and dreams
CAm7D
To the wind and the rain
G
Taking only our stash
Am7G
Left our litter and trash
C
And set out on the road again
G/BAm7G
On the road again
C
On the road again
DGEm
On the road
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4:56 (For The First Time Today Part 1)
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Am
For the first time today
FGC
I feel it's really over
FDm
You were my everyday excuse
GG+
For playing deaf, dumb and blind
Am
Who'd have ever thought
FGC
This was how it would end for you and me
FDm
To carry my own millstone
GG+
Out of the trees
Am
And I have to admit
I don't like it a bit
FAm
Being left here beside this lonesome road.
D/F#
Lonesome road
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4:58 Dunroamin Duncarin Dunlivin
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CAm
I nailed ducks to the wall
GCAm
Kept my heart in dark ruins
GCAm
I built bungalows all over the hills
GCAm
Dunroamin, duncarin, dunlivin
GCAm
Took my girl to the country
GCAm
To sleep out under the moon
CAm
Next thing she's going crazy
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GCAm
She waits for the real Mr. Right to come
GCAm
Gently removing her heart
FG
With his promises of real communication
F#F
Who's always picking up the tab
C
Who built a bungalow for his mum and dad
F
Who took you out to all the shows
C
Who worked his fingers to the bone
G
While you were asleep
F#F
I kept you in buttons and bows
C
So you could encourage this creep
F#F
With his neat feet
C
And his clean fingernails
F#FC
With his wise but twinkling eyes
FC
He's a rock standing out in an ocean of doubt
FG
And compromise
F#FC
I'd like to go on with this bit of a song
FC
Describing this schmuck
FGC
I'd like to go on, but I'm going to throw up
Am
[Not in my rig you don't boy...get the hell out of here]
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5:01 The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking
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Intro: AGCAmDGDm
An angel on a Harley
Am
Pulls across to greet a fellow rolling stone
Dm
Puts his bike up on it's stand
Leans back and then extends
Am
A scarred and greasy hand...he said
GCAm
How ya doin bro?...where ya been?...where ya goin'?
D
Then he takes your hand
In some strange Californian handshake
G
And breaks the bone
Dm
A housewife from Encino
Whose husband's on the golf course
Am
With his book of rules
Dm
Breaks and makes a 'U' and idles back
Am
To take a second look at you
G
You flex your rod
CAm
Fish takes the hook
D
Sweet vodka and tobacco in her breath
G
Another number in your little black book
CEm
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
CEm
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
DG
Oh babe, I must be dreaming
Dm
I'm standing on the leading edge
Am
The Eastern seaboard spread before my eyes
Dm
"Jump" says Yoko Ono
Am
"I'm too scared and too good looking" I cried
G
"Go on", she says
CAm
"Why don't you give it a try?
DG
Why prolong the agony all men must die"
DmAmDmAmCC/BAmGDm
Do you remember Dick Tracy?
Am
Do you remember Shane?
And mother wants you
Dm
Could you see him selling tickets
Am
Where the buzzard circles over [Shane]
The body on the plain
G
Did you understand the music Yoko
CAm
Or was it all in vain? [Shane]
D
The ***** said something mystical "Herro"
G
So I stepped back on the kerb again
CEm
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
CEm
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
DG
Oh babe, I must be dreaming again
C Em (repeat and fade)
These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking
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5:06 (Every Stranger's Eyes)
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C
Hello...you wanna cup of coffee?
Dm
I'm sorry, would you like a cup of coffee?
G
Ok you take cream and sugar?
C
In truck stops and hamburger joints
In Cadillac limousines
Dm
In the company of has-beens
G
And bent-backs and sleeping forms
On pavement steps
C
In libraries and railway stations
In books and banks
Dm
In the pages of history
G
In suicidal cavalry attacks
CC/BAm
I recognise...
FGC
Myself in every stranger's eyes
C
And in wheelchairs by monuments
Under tube trains and commuter accidents
Dm
In council care and county courts
G
At Easter fairs and sea-side resorts
C
In drawing rooms and city morgues
In award winning photographs
Of life rafts in the China seas
Dm
In transit camps, under arc lamps
On unloading ramps
G
In faces blurred by rubber stamps
CC/BAm
I recognise...
FGC
Myself in every stranger's eyes
CC/BAm
And now from where I stand
DmG
Upon this hill I plundered from the pool
CC/BAm
I look around, I search the skies
DmG
I shade my eyes, so nearly blind
CC/BAm
And I see signs of half remembered days
GFDmG
I hear bells that chime in strange familiar ways
CC/BAm
I recognai----ise...
FGCF
The hope you kindle in your eyes
CFGCAmDmGC
Its oh so easy now
FG
As we lie here in the dark
Em
Nothing interferes it's obvious
Am
How to beat the tears
Dm
That threaten to snuff out
GC
The spark of our love
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5:11 (Moment Of Clarity)
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C
And the moment of clarity
Am
Faded like charity does
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Am
And sometimes
FC
I put out my hand just to touch your soft hair
FC
To make sure in the darkness that you were still there
F
And I have to admit
CAmGFC
I was just a little afraid, oh yeah
Am
But then...
F
I had a little bit of luck
You were awake
C
I couldn't take another moment alone.